Here at IHM, we firmly understand that without you all, we’d be no where. We’re always trying to add on more features and tweak things to provide the best user experience for you all. Unfortunately, we’re not always able to see things from all perspectives. Often times, we’re only looking at features from what we think will be a good usage idea, but we’re unsure about what needs to be there. Often we’ll find ourselves messaging random users or users who we’ve created relationships with about things they’d like to see on the pages we’re designing.

While we like how this works, we want to have a more open line of communication for relaying of ideas for different features. We want users to take an interactive role in our site and help mold it into the perfect place for them.

If you’ve got ideas for our current features/pages or features/pages that you’d like to see, let us know. We’re not hard to talk to (most of the time) and we’ll listen to almost any suggestion. You can message us through IHM messages through our user pages (mine or jason’s) or you can email us.

We’re always looking for ideas to add to the IHM experience and it’s only with you that we’ll be able to make it better.

-Mike

As you’ve probably noticed when you logged in this morning, there was a big block of yellow replacing where your message center used to be located. Last night, we removed the message center from the account “dashboard” (frontpage). It’s now it’s own separate page (check it out).

We did this for a few different reasons. We are currently (as I’ve mentioned before) redesigning and changing the account dashboard. This page will have a lot more features that relate directly to you and get quite the speed increase when we’re done. We also eventually want to expand on the functionality of our messages. Moving it to a separate page was an easy way to accomplish both of those goals. Expect some more changes relating to the account dashboad soon.

-Mike

I meant to make this post last night, but got carried away into other things and didn’t. For those of you who don’t live in San Francisco (which means about almost every one of our users), we were mentioned in an AP article that was in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday about summer blockbusters. We were mentioned as a new upstart in movie social network category along with sites like Flixster and IMDb. We thought it was a pretty cool thing considering we like to read about ourselves (well I like pictures more, so I make Jason read articles to me).

Anyway, if you want to check it out, you can read it here: SF Gate Article

Also, I meant to mention this in my last post and completely forgot, but we made a change in the account frontpage (the page that shows your messages and friend’s activity). It’s now called your “Dashboard”. We’ll be updating this page to add a bunch more features to it and hopefully make it more useful to you as a user.

- Mike

Well it’s been a few days on the new server and we’ve yet to notice any troubles. The pages seem to be loading smooth with a much faster delivery than where we used to be. As mentioned in the previous post, if you’re having problems, you can request for support.

For those of you who have logged into the home page, you will have noticed a different site than what you’re accustomed to seeing. The new home page design was put live tonight for all users. We’re aiming for a cleaner look and more community oriented features on the page, as well as a quicker load time. If you haven’t checked it out, now is the time to do so.

The other big change tonight, came on the Recently Added browse page. Pagination has been added in as a request of a few different users. Now, if you miss a few days of visiting the site (like that would happen) you can scroll through the pages to see what was added while you were gone. Maybe you should take a peak at it.

-Mike